
Episode 119: Nietzsche on Tragedy and the Psychology of Art
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Apollonian Contemplation of Art
This is reminiscent again of schopenhauer's idea that in aesthetic experience, we're no longer individuated. Yet you by getting away from your own personal interests and looking at the grapes with regard to their beautiful form, you are becoming the pure willless subject of knowledge. And even though each is giving a similar phenomenological account of the apollonian contemplation, that it is also peaceful, and it is contemplating the forms in a way that kant would approve of, in a disinterested way. So its being clear, you know, he says, this apollonian take toward art naturally leads toward the directive to know yourself r you understand yourself.
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